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Dictionary words & escapees

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Words that were created in dictionaries, glossaries, or lexicons, including

1) Words for which no evidence for their occurrence in print outside of dictionaries and glossaries has yet been found, but where the entries appear to be bona fide attempts to record their existence in a particular language (e.g., alabandical, pierelle).

2) Words inserted in dictionaries as jokes or hoaxes (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis), or to guard against copyright violations (esquivalience).

3) Words created to provide technical vocabulary in a particular subject area (cryptoscopophilia).

4) Words created by some form of editorial lapse (dord).

5) Variant spellings created by editorial attempts to standardize spelling (youngmannishness).

6) Words that are otherwise unrecorded forms (plurals, principle parts, back-formations) of documented words (cubomancies).
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duellation   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

myriamerous   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

sacriferous   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

astrigerous   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

fleechment   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

eceses   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

stratephrenia   has been listed 2 times with 3 comments

alabandical   has been listed 8 times with 2 comments

mountweazel   has been listed 12 times with 8 comments

egrote   has been listed 5 times with 10 comments

cheerlessnesses   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

eunoia   has been listed 16 times with 8 comments

lactigerous   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cubomancies   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cryptoscopophilia   has been listed 4 times with 2 comments

zzxjoanw   has been listed 5 times with 2 comments

kelemenopy   has been listed 11 times with 3 comments

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis   has been listed 62 times with 13 comments

dord   has been listed 10 times with 2 comments

youngmannishness   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

esquivalience   has been listed 13 times with 11 comments

pierelle   has been listed 5 times with 15 comments

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about 1 year ago mollusque said:

Also see the list Mountweazels.

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